XenServer and Linux howtos

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By default XenServer mounts NFS SR with soft option.
That can cause the VM running on NFS to output an IO error and remount its disk as read-only.
The solution is to hard mount the NFS share. This will leave the VM to hang and wait for the share to come back online.

Edit file /opt/xensource/sm/nfs.py and uncommment existing options line under the soft_mount function and add new options line: